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Do we categorize them dichotomously or plot them along a bell curve?

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2018

So that Britain's intelligence war against communism was also one which sought, dichotomously, to both preserve and retreat from empire.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013

Sometimes small and parasitic, upon Sertularians and Polyzoa--sometimes independent, then of large growth, forming dichotomously divided fronds, with strap-shaped truncate, unequal divisions. b.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

The lepidodendra bore linear one-nerved leaves, and the stems always branched dichotomously and possessed a central pith.

From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Martin, Edward A.

Dimensions of the Trachea and Bronchi.—It will be noted that the bronchi divide monopodially, not dichotomously.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier